from an essay I’ve been writing on “Owning up to Ownership”: As I try to make an effort to learn […]
Tag Archive for ‘slavery’
Equiano
Coming this Saturday, a Highland Views column on the life and journeys of an enslaved African whose narrative was published […]
1619 & 1776
I’m reading The 1619 Project. I’d heard some of the controversy about the NYT project and saw the authors had […]
Charleston
We just returned from a few days in Charleston, South Carolina. My first time to that city. We found what […]
July Fourth
Each July Fourth I like to read Frederick Douglass‘s powerful speech, delivered in Rochester, NY in 1852. It is considered […]
Truth is Ruthless
That line is from a highly recommended book I just finished reading: Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning […]
Above the Tempest
Can we get beyond or above the “clash of opinions” in politics (or religion)? In 1821, a young woman from […]
Truth Speaks
This week’s column, continuing to celebrate the 19th Amendment, lifts up the voice and the truth-telling of Sojourner Truth: Tradition […]
Religion to Love, and Hate
In the 1840’s, Frederick Douglass traveled through the British Isles speaking on his former life as a slave in America. […]
A Day at Mount Vernon
I was born and raised in Washington … the State of Washington. Since childhood I saw images of George everywhere, […]
John Brown
Some say he ignited the Civil War with his attempt to fire up a slave rebellion when he led the […]
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